Really? Because I've seen plenty. Except where I come when they get that old, we no longer call them spikes but rather we refer to them as cowhorn deer because the two antlers are much taller than a typical spike and they bell out. We kill them as cull bucks.
Every area will have it's genetic tendencies.
In quotes, Dennis and I hunt within in a couple of miles of each other.Surely we'd see some if they always kept that trait.